Margaret Wente...addresses the wrong question by arguing that Barrick Gold and Peter Munk are not “the face of corporate evil.”...The bottom line is that companies of all stripes regularly fail to prevent serious abuses such as those that Barrick is investigating in Papua New Guinea and Tanzania. Barrick's failures...prove that, like every other member of society, companies need their government to set clearly defined standards of acceptable behaviour. Robust regulation of companies' overseas operations is the best way to prevent the sort of problems that Barrick faces. But Canada's government and its companies have refused to accept that basic fact, leaving firms to write their own rules and then figure out how to implement them in difficult contexts overseas. That model simply doesn't work.